The Epic Blind Date with My Boss

Josie looked up.

He removed her mask and asked, “Are you afraid of being recognized? Have you done something shameful?”

He spoke each word and sentence like a very angry, trapped beast.

Josie was in severe pain from the chokehold. She struggled to slap his hand away and called out, “Dexter!”

He leaned forward, his cold laughter reminiscent of an Epean vampire. “You don’t want to tell me who that man is. Is it because you know him? Not only do you know him, but I do too.”

It was a declarative sentence.

Oxygen was gradually squeezed out from her lungs. Everything in sight suddenly became hazy, like a filming technique in a movie, filled with bizarre and colorful lights,

Eventually, even his appearance became indistinguishable.

He must have found something. Josie eventually calmed herself down.

She decided to stop the pointless struggle. If Dexter wanted to strangle her, then so be it.

sense the woman’s will to live diminishing. Dexter opened his weary eyes, his

two-step retreat, teetering on the brink of collapse. It was a rather sorry sight.

he approached, his anger was not as abrupt as before, which made Josie even

“I want to strangle you

say some hurtful words. “However, even

to provoke this man on the brink of collapse further. She kept her distance, clutching her neck and coughing forcefully. “So,

to toe, Dexter appeared somewhat hunched. He looked as if he had walked straight out of

to hurt her.

him calmly, without any anger or aggression. The more she looked at him that way, the more uncomfortable Dexter felt.

give up on me?” Dexter

it anymore. If we continue like this, we can’t return to how things were. I can give up everything,

teeth, the taste of iron filling his mouth as

two, making their connection feel unreal. The most tragic

feel guilty toward me?”

look. Her expression was indifferent when